Cape of Good Hope

Baboon and Toyota

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What is the difference between a baboon and a wind surfer? Wind surfers are less likely to try and break into your car. This is where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet. Funny, but I could not find a line in the water. I photographed the baboons from too close for safety. They were running around wild in the street.

Great post. Are the baboons friendly? Are they everywhere? We don’t have wild monkeys in Chicago. I wouldn’t know how to act…what is the protocol for baboon interaction? I would imagine it would be something like…stay as far away from them as possible, but I’m not sure. :)

Your photos take me back to 2002 when we took our 3 kids there. The baboons were frightening. (Nice short DOP photo of a baboon on a white car.) We were warned to never show food, as that would bring them to and in your car. When we hiked down to the beach to eat under an overhang of the bluff, we were still wondering if baboons were watching us. Then the ocean took the stage. The epicenter, the vortex, the crux of energy in that corner of earth was intense. The winds kicked up. Our blissful view of white sand and various hues of blue water dramatically changed into churning waves and a sandstorm. We could hardly walk back up to our car due to the winds’ force. I don’t know what to call that place: magical, intense, heaven, hell? It was all of the above. Thanks for your fantastic photo reminders which sparked this lengthy comment.

I agree I forgot smart…many years ago I took my daughter to the Vancouver Zoo… a monkey, don’t remember what species was watching her and following her as she was enjoying the rest of the group…until suddenly he reached his hand through the fence and tore her red barrette from her hair…then ran and hid with his prize…she wasn’t hurt but she was terribly upset!!!

We were staying in Blyde River Canyon (South Africa) last year and I was sitting in our cottage having coffee in the morning when a troop of baboons came by. One looked at me in the window, jumped up on the roof, ripped a metal shingle off the roof, came back to the window showing me the shingle and as he looked me straight in the eye, threw the shingle at our car, leaving a good size dent ! Apparantly baboon damage doesn’t come with the rental car insurance and we were billed 140 euro.